Yes, they want drugs, and gun crime, and the KKK, and lower life expectancy, and higher infant mortality, and a shitty healthcare system, and a third world education system, and religious lunatics in every political office, and a crapped out economy, and 10% unemployment (real figure more like 20%) and all their jobs going overseas.
The way they keep voting certainly suggests so, yes.
I'd only consider living in the USA if outrageous profit was involved, to offset the, frankly, shitty experience of being there in the first place. For most other developed countries the USA is definitely a step down.
Having lived in the US (and a few other countries), if you have a solid job and good ($100k+) income, the lifestyle is pretty unbeatable due to the low cost of living. I can't think of another country where such a relatively low income can buy such a relatively high lifestyle.
Give us a year or two - for now we still buy a little bit of stuff from the USA instead of directly from Asia where it is made. As you guys keep outsourcing it won't be long before there isn't anything we want to buy from the USA.
Other than politics.
Hence the reason Australian the US won't be splitting any time in the foreseeable future. Most Australian politicians worship American politics. It's sickening.
Of course you're free to take a walk in your own front yard, just watch out for the tiger pits we put in. And the bear traps. OH, and the unmarked minefield. But we have done absolutely nothing to stop you from taking a nice walk in your own front yard.
Maybe you shouldn't have bought a house with all those "features", if you didn't want them.
Sure it is. The vendor is being forced by the OS supplier to set the device up in a way that precludes alternatives, and leveraging their monopoly platform to do it.
Microsoft has a monopoly in tablets OSes ? When did that happen ?
The bus. I've seen many people concluding any sort of software RAID is aweful after hooking up a dozen drives to a single 32-bit PCI slot.
Since you appear to have ample bus bandwidth, it's a bit unusual. I have 16 drives on two 8-port controllers in x8 slots, and my two zpools can scrub (concurrently) at 550-600MB/sec (on a Xeon X3430 w/8GB RAM).
If you had all 16 drives in a single zpool, that might be related. Max recommended number of devices per pool is 8, from memory.
NTFS was NOT jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM, HPFS was.
I never said it was. I said NTFS was developed while IBM and Microsoft were still "married".
NT was entirely a Microsoft show as well, and started at the same time - around 1988. NTFS was built to go into NT.
Microsoft did NTFS as part of Windows NT after the split.
The IBM/Microsoft split was in 1990. NT started development in 1988. Sadly I can't find my copy of Helen Custer's "Inside the Windows NT Filing System", or I'd quote you a more accurate timeframe for the beginning of NTFS development.
And FYI - Windows has never really recognized the HPFS or HPFS+ file systems - both used by OS/2 and Mac OS, and instead calling them "corrupted" NTFS file sytems.
Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5 could be installed into an HPFS partition. NT 3.51 could read and write HPFS partitions (and would run from one if upgraded from earlier versions of NT). NT 4.0 didn't have the driver by default, but it could be installed easily enough for full read/write support.
No version of MacOS (Classic or X) has ever supported HPFS so far as I know.
Yes there are a lot of shared features between the two; but that probably has more to do with the fact that Microsoft worked on HPFS than anything else - they probably saw them as good features to have as a result, and thereby incorporated them. (Not to mention the marketing perspective.)
There's not really a lot of "shared features", especially architecturally. NTFS is a superset of HPFS in terms of functionality and was supposed to be its replacement, just like NT was supposed to (eventually) replace OS/2.
I'll also point out that Wikipedia disagrees with you [...]
And they specifically used the same FS number as HPFS which Microsoft and IBM jointly developed for OS/2 [...]
The reason for that should be pretty obvious - NTFS was supposed to replace HPFS in what was then still called OS/2 NT.
NTFS development started along with NT development in the late '80s. Back when IBM and Microsoft were still BFFs and *years* before they would have any thoughts about "compatibility".
About 28TB or so, on an LSI RAID controller (set to non-RAID mode). Lots of data to be sure (a bunch of 2TB disks) but not that excessive. The resilver was just amazingly slow. Doing searches online I came across lots of people talking about slow resilvers, and no solutions.
No we will live in 8.3 file names as long as FAT is the defacto standard for all portable drives.
I've never seen a single "portable drive" that wasn't formatted in long filename capable vFAT. Even back when they were still measured in sizes of less than 100MB.
Doesn't mean they aren't there. FAT is still pervasive enough that you can't get away from 8.3. All you have to do is look at Movie and Music/Sound files, they all are.m4v and.mp3 and.wma and so on.
Has nothing to do with a technical limitation. It's 16 years since FAT was replaced with vFAT.
Here's one, how do you tell the difference between avatar.m4v and avatar.m4v and which one is the crappy action adaption of a cartoon and which one was the crappy cartoon masking as an action flick?
You ask the person who gave it to you, then tell him it's time to upgrade that 386 running Windows 3.1.
on the other hand, how do you know when projects like Wine or ReactOS are getting good?
when MS starts introducing incompatibilities.
Is this the contemporary manifestation of that old "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" canard ?
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Actually, if you're talking about European countries that have left-wing politics, they've been sent to bed without any supper. And there won't be any money to buy breakfast, either.
Just like America, then ?
I am constantly amused by the superior attitude copped by the bankrupt serfs in the EU.
I'm not in the EU. Even if I was, I wouldn't be too worried about anything an American had to say on the topic. Their attitudes and the exporting of them to other countries are largely responsible for the carnage recently wrought upon the world's economies.
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The left wing is in bed with corporations [opensecrets.org] [...]
From "About Us" on Opensecrets: The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
Your reference is to a site tracking US politics. There is no remotely mainstream left-wing influence in US politics. There's the right (Democrats), the far right (Republicans), and the crazy right (Ron Paul & Co.).
In as much as left-wing ideas might occasionally surface (eg: single-payer healthcare), they are soon smashed down by the zealous right-wing to end up with a properly corporatist outcome (ie: the actual healthcare bill). In essence, what little remains of the Left in American is simply too demoralised to put up a fight after 30-odd years of being whittled away by "compromise".
In countries that do have left-wing politics, if the Left is "in bed" with anyone, it's the Unions. Who tend to treat corporations with something between suspicion and contempt.
As I said, currently there is no progress in nuclear because government stole people's freedoms to privacy, private property, business and other liberties. Gov't doesn't allow the private sector to experiment and look for better ways of extracting energy from nuclear and you are stuck complaining about the current state of affairs.
Please elaborate on which research into energy sources has been made illegal.
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The way they keep voting certainly suggests so, yes.
Having lived in the US (and a few other countries), if you have a solid job and good ($100k+) income, the lifestyle is pretty unbeatable due to the low cost of living. I can't think of another country where such a relatively low income can buy such a relatively high lifestyle.
Other than politics.
Hence the reason Australian the US won't be splitting any time in the foreseeable future. Most Australian politicians worship American politics. It's sickening.
Nothing on my computer I care about, needs root privileges to access.
Shush, this is Slashdot. Marketshare and userbase are never factors.
Paying rent AND a mortgage.
Paying for the move itself ($thousands minimum, all up).
Uprooting your spouse and children from their jobs, school, social circles, etc.
Your statistics are all predicated on the ability to access care. Thus, they are ignoring the actual problem to present a specious argument.
Really ? Because I could have sworn there's these two other builders in town...
Maybe you shouldn't have bought a house with all those "features", if you didn't want them.
Microsoft has a monopoly in tablets OSes ? When did that happen ?
The bus. I've seen many people concluding any sort of software RAID is aweful after hooking up a dozen drives to a single 32-bit PCI slot.
Since you appear to have ample bus bandwidth, it's a bit unusual. I have 16 drives on two 8-port controllers in x8 slots, and my two zpools can scrub (concurrently) at 550-600MB/sec (on a Xeon X3430 w/8GB RAM).
If you had all 16 drives in a single zpool, that might be related. Max recommended number of devices per pool is 8, from memory.
I never said it was. I said NTFS was developed while IBM and Microsoft were still "married".
NT was entirely a Microsoft show as well, and started at the same time - around 1988. NTFS was built to go into NT.
The IBM/Microsoft split was in 1990. NT started development in 1988. Sadly I can't find my copy of Helen Custer's "Inside the Windows NT Filing System", or I'd quote you a more accurate timeframe for the beginning of NTFS development.
Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5 could be installed into an HPFS partition. NT 3.51 could read and write HPFS partitions (and would run from one if upgraded from earlier versions of NT). NT 4.0 didn't have the driver by default, but it could be installed easily enough for full read/write support.
No version of MacOS (Classic or X) has ever supported HPFS so far as I know.
There's not really a lot of "shared features", especially architecturally. NTFS is a superset of HPFS in terms of functionality and was supposed to be its replacement, just like NT was supposed to (eventually) replace OS/2.
No, it doesn't.
The reason for that should be pretty obvious - NTFS was supposed to replace HPFS in what was then still called OS/2 NT.
NTFS development started along with NT development in the late '80s. Back when IBM and Microsoft were still BFFs and *years* before they would have any thoughts about "compatibility".
What was your disk controller plugged into ?
I've never seen a single "portable drive" that wasn't formatted in long filename capable vFAT. Even back when they were still measured in sizes of less than 100MB.
Has nothing to do with a technical limitation. It's 16 years since FAT was replaced with vFAT.
You ask the person who gave it to you, then tell him it's time to upgrade that 386 running Windows 3.1.
Is this the contemporary manifestation of that old "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" canard ?
Just like America, then ?
I'm not in the EU. Even if I was, I wouldn't be too worried about anything an American had to say on the topic. Their attitudes and the exporting of them to other countries are largely responsible for the carnage recently wrought upon the world's economies.
From "About Us" on Opensecrets:
The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
Your reference is to a site tracking US politics. There is no remotely mainstream left-wing influence in US politics. There's the right (Democrats), the far right (Republicans), and the crazy right (Ron Paul & Co.).
In as much as left-wing ideas might occasionally surface (eg: single-payer healthcare), they are soon smashed down by the zealous right-wing to end up with a properly corporatist outcome (ie: the actual healthcare bill). In essence, what little remains of the Left in American is simply too demoralised to put up a fight after 30-odd years of being whittled away by "compromise".
In countries that do have left-wing politics, if the Left is "in bed" with anyone, it's the Unions. Who tend to treat corporations with something between suspicion and contempt.
So you're saying there is no private research into nuclear power ?
Please elaborate on which research into energy sources has been made illegal.
Because Copyright is an out of control monster that needs to be opposed.
What does that even mean ?
Really ? Can you elaborate on which awesome features and capabilities these "other operating systems" have that Windows lacks ?
Never heard of 'su', I take it ?
For example ?